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''Bucco'' is a genus of birds in the puffbird family Bucconidae. Birds in the genus are native to the Americas. The genus ''Bucco'' was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the collared puffbird as the type species. The name is from the Latin ''bucca'' for "cheek".


Extant Species

The genus contains four species:


References

Bird genera Bucconidae Taxa named by Mathurin Jacques Brisson Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Piciformes-stub